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A Short Biography of John Donne

Author Name:

John Donne

Born As:

John Donne

Other Names:

John Donne

Born:

23 Jan 1572

Died:

31 Mar 1631




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Dramatist, poet and theologian                          
Selected Works:

Poetry:

Poems - 1633
Poems on Several Occasions - 2001
Love Poems - 1905
John Donne: Divine Poems, Sermons, Devotions and Prayers - 1990
The Complete English Poems - 1991
John Donne's Poetry - 1991
John Donne: The Major Works - 2000
The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose of John Donne - 2001

Prose:

Six Sermons - 1634
Fifty Sermons - 1649
Paradoxes, Problemes, Essayes, Characters - 1652
Essayes in Divinity - 1651
Sermons Never Before Published - 1661
John Donne's 1622 Gunpowder Plot Sermon - 1996
Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions and Death's Duel - 1999; first published in 1624.                          
Mother Elizabeth Heywood
Father John Donne, the third of six children.                          
                          
Most of his poems were published posthumously - 1633.
Born in England, somewhere between January 23 and June 19 in 1572,